Diana Reed Slattery's writing career began with poetry and fiction in the print world, publishing in magazines and journals such as Georgia Review, New England Review and Breadloaf Quarterly, Fiction International, Antioch Review, Exile, Groundswell, and Kansas Quarterly. She has been anthologized in New World Writing, New Campus Writing, Outlaw Visions, and Golden Horses. Her story, "Bizarre Births" (1988) was included in the Georgia Review's finalist entry for the National Magazine Award. In the same time period, she received an Honorable Mention in the Pushcart Prize (short fiction) and in The Best American Short Stories. Her short story collection, Bizarre Births, was a finalist for the Flannery O'Conner Award for short fiction. In the mid-90's, with the advent of the World Wide Web, Slattery released the inner geek and began experimenting with literary hypertext and multimedia works online. Her first webwork, "Alphaweb: A Poetry Hypertext," was published by The Journal of Postmodern Culture. Two more multimedia webworks followed: "Confessions of a Cult Leader's Wife," and "The Domain of Visible Thought." Riding the Meridian published "Glide: An Interactive Exploration of Visual Language." In 2003, The Maze Game paperback was published; the Kindle edition was published in 2012. Slattery is currently writing Xenolinguistics: Psychedelics and Language at the Edge of the Unspeakable. The book is based on her Ph.D. research, involving an 11 year psychonautic exploration of an alien language, Glide. Slattery holds the McKenna Chair of Xenolinguistics at the Institute for the Encouragement of Outrageous Ideas.